08_Xena White - The mines_ Episode 2 by British Forum for Ethnomusicology
19 Jun 2026
06_Xena White - The Buckstone
06_Xena White - The Buckstone by British Forum for Ethnomusicology
19 Jun 2026
04_Xena White - The Devil_s Chapel
04_Xena White - The Devil_s Chapel by British Forum for Ethnomusicology
19 Jun 2026
03_Xena White - The Broad Stone and the Devil_s Quoit
03_Xena White - The Broad Stone and the Devil_s Quoit by British Forum for Ethnomusicology
19 Jun 2026
02_Xena White - Jack o’Kent vs. the Devi
02_Xena White - Jack o’Kent vs. the Devi by British Forum for Ethnomusicology
19 Jun 2026
01_Xena White - The Forest of Dean Lore and Stone
01_Xena White - The Forest of Dean Lore and Stone by British Forum for Ethnomusicology
17 Jun 2026
05_Xena White - The Longstone
05_Xena White - The Longstone by British Forum for Ethnomusicology
17 Jun 2026
07_Xena White - The mines_ Episode 1
07_Xena White - The mines_ Episode 1 by British Forum for Ethnomusicology
2 Jul 2025
BFE Podcast: Sara Rohr
Sara's podcast focusses on the Katajjaq throat singing tradition practiced by Inuit communities in Canada
Sara Valentina Rohr is an ethnomusicologist and historian based in Switzerland. She holds a master’s degree in World Arts and Music and history. Now, she is a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology of Music at the University of Bern, funded by a scholarship from the Swiss National Foundation. In her PhD project, she engages with the Archives Sonores Inuit, an Inuit song archive recorded in 1938 and 1939 by Swiss ethnographer Jean Gabus, which is now part of the permanent collection of the Musée d’Ethnographie de Neuchâtel. Furthermore, she has been newly elected to the board of the Swiss Society for Ethnomusicology. In her free time, she likes to yodel and play the piano.
23 Feb 2024
BFE Podcast: Fulvia Torricelli
Fulvia Torricelli is trained in Social and Environmental Sciences and is currently enrolled as a master student in Ethnomusicology in the joint degree between the University of Geneva, the University of Neuchâtel and the Geneva University of Music (HEM), Switzerland. She is a co-founder of the Collectif Migrations Sonores in Geneva with whom she has launched a number of projects related to music, memory and identity in partnership with local associations and institutions. One of the main projects created by this collective is TOPOPHONIK, in partnership with the Geneva Museum of Ethnography and their sound archive collection (AIMP - International Archive of Popular Music) - https://migrassound.ch. This is a Podcast and sound exhibition project that aims at linking communities in Geneva with the archive, thereby creating bridges between music and identities to highlight the city's polyphony of sound and communities. The latest project Fulvia realised as part of the exhibition is called NO MEMORIALS, a sonic exhibition about the 50 years of Chilean exile in Geneva https://www.instagram.com/nomemorials.
5 Apr 2022
BFE Podcast: Daniel Smither
Dangerous Singing: An Interview with "Cheb," Nabil Elamouri
Daniel Smither is an American ethnomusicology student at SOAS focusing on Balinese gamelan music, in particular the music for the shadow play, gamelan gendér wayang. He obtained a B.A. in Music from Virginia Commonwealth University and received a Darmasiswa scholarship where he spent a year studying Balinese music at the Institut Seni Indonesia in Denpasar, Bali. He has studied and played various types of gamelan music in America, Indonesia and the UK, in groups such as Gamelan Raga Kusuma in Virginia, the Narwastu Art Group in Bali and Gamelan Lila Cita in London. He recently moderated a conference on Korean music in Indonesia for Institut Kesenian Jakarta entitled “Korean Music in Indonesia Present and Development: Urbanism Relocated and Intermediate Encounter.”
5 Apr 2022
BFE Podcast: Lucas Wink
On the streets with Bombos ensembles: listening to a traditional percussive practice in northern Portugal
Biography:
Lucas Wink is a drummer and ethnomusicologist based in Portugal. He holds a Bachelor degree in Music and a Masters degree in Music (Musicology). Currently he is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of Aveiro, where he conducts a research on Bombos funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) of Portugal. He is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology – Center for Studies in Music and Dance (INET-md) working in the research project "EcoMusic – Sustainable Practices: a study of the post-folklorism in Portugal in the 21st century" (http://ecomusic.web.ua.pt). He also regularly plays the drums for Orquestra Bamba Social, a Luso-Brazilian ensemble mixing samba, jazz, rock and hip-hop based in Porto.
5 Apr 2022
BFE Podcast: Romy Martinez
Songs by the Riverbanks
Biography:
Romy Martinez is a multilingual singer, teacher and researcher with a musical career and academic background spread between Paraguay (country of birth), Brazil and Argentina. She has released interdisciplinary and decolonial research about a common bordering musicality. This work is connected to award winning albums in collaboration with the Purahéi Trio of which she is the founder. This ensemble unites musicians from the aforementioned countries. Romy holds a degree in Music Education from UDESC and a master’s degree in communication and culture, with emphasis on Latin American Studies from PROLAM/USP, both obtained in Brazil. She also specialised in Argentinian music performance (tango and folklore) at the Manuel de Falla Conservatory in Buenos Aires and since 2018, she has been a doctoral researcher in the Music Department at Royal Holloway University of London. Her current research work focuses on Paraguayan popular song from a language perspective, exploring the indigenous language Guarani, which is second official in Paraguay, alongside with Spanish. It focuses on three main aspects: singing performance, transmission in music education, and, composition, observing the connections between language and the construction of melodies and lyrics. She also writes on Paraguayan female musicians, Brazilian music vocal performance and singing curricula. Besides, she has designed and taught courses on music from the Southern Cone in Latin America and she aims to become the first Paraguayan woman to obtain a PhD degree in the field of ethnomusicology.
www.romymartinez.com
Credits:
Atmosphere music by Paraguayan harpists Sixto and Juanjo Corbalan
15 Mar 2022
BFE Podcast: Georgie Pope
Academia and Caring Responsibilities
2 Nov 2021
BFE Podcast Series: Careers Beyond Academia - Cara Stacey
BFE Podcast Series: Careers Beyond Academia - Cara Stacey by British Forum for Ethnomusicology
2 Nov 2021
BFE Podcast Series: Careers Beyond Academia - Solène Heinzl
Track Information:
Anis - 2005 - Cergy
Von D - 2017 - 12 Colonnes
Aayité - 2019 - Cergy dans nos coeurs
2 Nov 2021
BFE Podcast Series: Careers Beyond Academia - Katrina Damigos
BFE Podcast Series: Careers Beyond Academia - Katrina Damigos by British Forum for Ethnomusicology
2 Nov 2021
BFE Podcast: José Kress
The construction of Thai national identity and how this process is reflected in Thailand’s music
José Kress is a sociologist and musicologist from Switzerland. After having completed his a Bachelor degree in Sociology in Valencia, Spain, and a Masters degree in Sociology at the University of Bern, he is now completing a second Masters in World Arts and Music at the University of Bern, with a special focus on Cultural Anthropology of Music.
Currently he is employed as a student tutor in the Department of Musicology in Bern and in his leisure time, he produces a German language podcast series called "Du bist, was du hörst“ (you are what you hear). In each episode, he examines a particular music style or instrument, ranging from traditional music or pop to underground beats through a musicological and sociological lens.
2 Nov 2021
BFE Podcast: Patrick Staub
'The Recontextualization of the Anglo-Irish Ballad "The Unfortunate Rake"
Patrick Staub is a Swiss ethnomusicologist and musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist with a focus on various forms of bagpipes, for example, the Spanish Gaita Gallega or the German Schäferpfeife. Patrick studied musicology, modern history, and Scandinavian culture at the University of Zurich and is currently doing his Masters in World Arts and Music at the University of Bern. His studies focus on Irish and Scandinavian music, as well as Eastern Asian culture. In his free time, he likes to build instruments and to train at the Taiko Zürich school for Japanese drums.
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